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So the graduate transfer decided to step up her aggressiveness in order to give the Michigan State women’s basketball team a lift.

It worked, and resulted in a key Big Ten win.

Reimer did most of her scoring in the second half as the Spartans extended their win streak with a 69-60 victory over Indiana on Thursday evening at Breslin Center.

Reimer had 13 of her 15 points in the second half, including 11 in the third quarter, to help MSU (16-7, 6-4) win its third straight.

“IU is a great team and they’ve been doing good in conference. This was huge for us, especially looking towards the tournament," said Reimer, who was 7 of 11 from the floor. "I think that when we have emotion like (we did in the second half), we just play better. We all feed off of that. We didn’t really have that emotion and that energy in the first half, so I was just trying to be really aggressive and kind of just get really hype, especially in the third quarter.”

Reimer scored six early points and drew an offensive foul to start the second half and then capped a 10-0 run with a three-point play during her strong third quarter that played a pivotal part in the latest victory for the Spartans.

“Taya was so aggressive and this is what we’ve been trying to get her to do a majority of the season,” MSU interim coach Amaka Agugua said. “She had some great moves inside. She finished some big layups through contact. It just gave us a tremendous spark.”

Reimer was one of four players to score in double figures for the Spartans. Tori Jankoska had 15 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists, freshman point guard and East Lansing grad Taryn McCutcheon matched a career-high with 15 points and Branndais Agee had 11 points and 10 rebounds.

Jankoska battled a tough shooting night but hit a big 3 in the final minute to help the Spartans fend off the Hoosiers (15-7, 5-4).

Indiana pulled with three with just over a minute remaining, but Jankoska gave MSU a lift when she drained a 3 with 42 seconds remaining. That was part of six unanswered points the Spartans closed the game on, with Agee scoring the other three at the free-throw line.

“I feel that was probably one of the biggest wins we had all season,” Jankoska said. “We talked about it before the game started and we really thought this was a game we needed to have to help us postseason and in the Big Ten even with trying to get that double-bye (in the conference tournament). It was huge and we responded in a positive way any time adversity hit. We made a response and it was a good all-around game.”